Yesterday, I ran my 65th Half Marathon! The Rose Bowl Half Marathon which used to be called the Pasadena Half. I haven’t run this one since the very first year back in 2017. We drove up on Saturday to the Rose Bowl to pick-up our packets. We were visiting Sean’s mom who was visiting Newport […]
This post is sponsored by BabbleBoxx on behalf of Superfeet. All thoughts and opinions are my own. Affiliate links in post. Do you use running insoles? When I was running track in high school I had custom made orthotics but over the years my feet changes and I have to admit that I have tried […]
So I decided to shake things up a bit this week and I told my coach that I no longer wanted to do a traditional training plan. Having a plan and specific days to run was stressing me out and I wanted to return to a place where I was just doing strength training with […]
This post is sponsored by Sunbeam. All thoughts and opinions are my own. Did you know that September is the US Pain Foundation Pain Awareness Month? This year’s Pain Awareness Month campaign is presented in collaboration with my friends over at Sunbeam & you can come up with your own pain care plan by going […]
How is it already week 3? We got back from our quick visit to the Bay Area and were planning for a camping trip to Yosemite for the next weekend so I took my schedule and switched up some of the workout days. I got a hydro-jug after I got back from the Bay Area […]
This is the first time I’ve run this race. We are normally out of town, AC 100 is normally this weekend or another 100 mile race so it isn’t on our radar. This year however with us not traveling quite as much and staying closer to home, when my teammates from Arete said that this […]
Week 2 of training went about how I expected based off how the last 7 months of running has gone. For whatever reason it seems like I have one great week of training and then one not so great week, which really makes it hard to get to a place of consistency. After running the […]
Here we go my friends. I haven’t officially trained for a marathon in many, many years. In fact I would go so far as to say, maybe the last time I legit trained for a race, any race, but especially a marathon was back in 2014 when I ran the Rome Marathon. Since I met […]
While June was an awesome month, July not quite so much. This emotional roller coaster I’ve been on for the past year is continuing to derail me but I’ve made some decisions to start making some changes to get off this coaster so hopefully August will come with some clarity & peace. July kicked off […]
I wrote my May check-in and then for some reason never posted it but May was a rough month & June was much, much better so let’s just start there. Kicked off June with a with a bright, shiny new Subaru Crosstrek Hybrid which was a nice surprise. We went in just to take a […]
